Speaking at the club’s AGM at the DW Stadium on Monday night, chief executive Jonathan Jackson read out a statement to shareholders, on behalf of the Whelan family, confirming ‘non-disclosure agreements were signed in October’, and that further discussions were ongoing.

The potential new owners – one of ‘a number of parties from all over the world expressing interest in purchasing their shares’ – have satisfied the Whelan family they will ‘retain the fundamental ethos and tradition of the club’, while possessing ‘the required financial resources’ to take the club forward.

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Posted by: bridger (inactive)

Mr Whelan said yesterday: "Retiring from the board and selling my stake in the business I founded has not been an easy decision but it has been made easier by my confidence in the senior management team.

It is a 'Kong Hong' consortium (Hong Kong) who are the interested party in acquiring Wigan Athletic, so we are talking (or typing) about the Chinese, taking over the Latics, which may mean Money Money Money, Loads of money

If it works and the Chinese pump money into the Latics and Wigan Athletic become a top Premier League team, beating Man City and Yoonited, then the knock on effects for the Town (Wigan) could be enormous